Sport Rider has a couple of good articles on honing your riding skills. One is on braking and the other on downshifting smoothly. Good info even for street riding.
Downshifting smoothly on a sportbike, especially while braking hard from high speed, requires a definite measure of skill and dexterity. In order to avoid upsetting the bike, [...]

Ricky Carmichael made an uncharacteristic mistake and Stewart jumped on it to take the win- but Carmichael still has a huge lead in the overall points. The AMA site has all the details.
 
Kawasaki’s James Stewart took advantage of a late-race crash by Ricky Carmichael in the second moto today to win before a crowd of 27,442 at [...]

The AMA site has an article up on the vintage races at Mid-Ohio. This might be the perfect outlet for those of us past our prime (way past) who still have the need for speed. The scary part is that the bikes I used to race a “few” years ago are now considered vintage.
One of [...]

“The F.C.C. TSR Honda pairing of Shinichi Ito and Takeshi Tsujimura raced their XX-F Class CBR1000RR to victory at the Suzuka 8 Hours today. The Japanese pairing led the race almost all the way from start to finish completing 210 laps of the 5.821km circuit to take the win by one clear lap from the Harc [...]

The AMA site has a great article up about a group of guys from Wisconsin who decided to buy an old bike and parts at the swap meet and build it into a race bike for the vintage races. They wanted a Kawasaki GPz 550 but the best they could find was a cruiser style [...]

The final grid is set for the 8 hour race at Suzuka with Honda on the pole. SuperbikePlanet has the details-
Here is your final grid (top ten) for Sunday’s Suzuka 8-Hour endurance classic, with Takeshi Tsujimura & Shinichi Itoh, riding for the FCC TSR ZIP-FM Racing Team, in pole position following today’s superpole style qualifying [...]

VMD at Mid-Ohio is underway. MV Agusta is the featured marque this year. Here is a snip from the AMA.
What are you doing this weekend? If you go to AMA Vintage Motorcycle Days, you can do all this:

See perfectly preserved vintage bikes in three bike shows.
Revisit the history of one of the world’s most storied [...]

blue angel ride.wmvAbout a year ago, I think, there was an article in one of the Motorcycle magazines about the Blue Angels and the fact that they all rode Sportbikes- against the rules at the time. If anyone knows the magazine and issue, let me know. But for now, here is a video that Motorcyclist [...]

As long as we are on the topic of flying, check out the video that Sport Rider did while testing the top speed of the Kawasaki ZX-14. It sounds like a jet and is faster than most small airplanes.

 Not exactly motorcycle related, but a friend is at Oshkosh for the huge airshow and fly-in (kind of like Daytona for the flying crowd) and he had a chance to sit and listen to Chuck Yeager tell stories about flying during WWII. He took this picture with his cellphone I think. If you have never read [...]

Each year Mid-Ohio hosts the AMA Vintage days which includes shows, races and lots of great vintage bikes- everywhere! We have a man there covering the action, and when he gets back, we will sift through the pictures and get an article up with the coverage.
 

Bikes in the Fast Lane has a couple of good videos up of the Erzberg Enduro which takes place in a copper mine in Austria. Info here. The best riders in the world show up for this test of man and machine. Of the 1500 or so riders that start, only 40 made it across [...]

I ws poking around Ducati’s site, and they have some nice downloadable wallpaper of the new $65,000.00 street legal “MotoGP” bike. I suppose they will sell everyone they make, but us common folks will probably never see one except in the magazines. Speaking of which, Cycle World just happens to have a look at one, [...]

I just got back from the big salvage auction in Atlanta, and it is amazing what wrecked bike are selling for. With demand for bikes and parts high, the wrecked bikes are bringing record prices. It isn’t unusual to see bikes that are “very wrecked” (as opposed to cosmetically totalled) bring insane money. I saw [...]

Honda announced today at Oshkosh that they will start production of the light jet they have been testing for the past few years. The press release is here. Now if they would only produce pod racers like in Star Wars, we would all be happy.
Honda today announced plans to enter the innovative HondaJet in the [...]